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Miriam will be joining Sarasota Opera's Studio Artist Program in 2009 to cover Tosca and Elizabeth (Don Carlos).In July, Miriam performed the role of Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera under the guidance of Martina Arroyo for her Prelude to Performance program. Click here for more information.
In December, Miriam performed a variety of works for soprano and chorus with NYC choir The Glass Menagerie.
Miriam spent the Summer of 2007 at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. While there, she performed excerpts from Kurt Weill's "Street Scene" in a variety of Austrian cities. Watch her perform two Mendelssohn duets at a Graz museum.
Miriam recently appeared as a guest artist at Ohio University. Watch a clip of her as the Mother in Hansel and Gretel.
[David Daniels] could barely contain his excitement over soprano Miriam Kushel, who gave a brilliantly confident account of Britten’s cabaret song Johnny. - Brian Kellow, Opera News, December 2004, Cover article
After graduating with an Honors/Voice diploma from Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City, Miriam Kushel attended State University of New York at Binghamton, graduating with Highest Honors in Music and earning Bachelors degrees in both Music and Psychology. At Binghamton she gave two solo recitals and made a foray into musical direction with a student-run production of Into the Woods. Miriam received a Masters of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music in Ann Arbor where she presented two more solo recitals and performed as The Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, The Forrester’s Wife and Owl in The Cunning Little Vixen (in Czech) and Clara in Pasatieri’s Signor Deluso. She also was featured in Joan Morris’ original musical The Police Gazette, alongside Ms. Morris, George Shirley, and Carmen Pelton. While in school, Miriam made her professional opera debut as the Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. Since graduation, Miriam has performed with the Motor City Lyric Opera (Pasatieri’s The Goose Girl) and Bard Summerscape (Janaček’s Osud under Leon Botstein). In the spring of 2004, she was featured in Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artists Program tour, in which she sang a variety of roles for audiences throughout the northeast. Miriam performed a featured role in a concert presentation of Bernstein’s Candide at the Michigan Theatre, a production starring Fredericka von Stade. Following that, Miriam was selected as one of ten singers to participate in the Cleveland Art Song Festival where she performed in master classes with Martin Katz, Warren Jones, Stephanie Blythe, and David Daniels, as well as in the Festival Concert, broadcast on Cleveland Public Radio. She attended OperaWorks in Los Angeles in the summer of 2005, and made her New York musical theatre debut in a showcase performance of Monica Bauer’s The Diet Monologues at the Dramatists’ Guild.
Miriam has returned to the city of her birth where she is studying with Ruth Golden. She recently presented her first solo recital in New York City.
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